TLDR AI · ENGINEERING & RESEARCH

THE CONTEXT WINDOW PROBLEM: SCALING AGENTS BEYOND TOKEN LIMITS

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Current LLM context windows (~1 million tokens) are too small to handle typical enterprise codebases, meaning coding tools need sophisticated "context stack" architectures with repository overviews, semantic search, and enterprise integrations. Context is like CPU time, a scarce resource that requires careful allocation.